Month: September 2007

Reading Time: 4 minutesA Munyakole businessman married into one of the prominent families in Bunyoro was told by his father in-law that not far beneath, the soft dark soil that makes up his estate- bones of his forebears could be found. The bones- like the discovery of a faded black and white picture in a dusty suitcase- reminds

Reading Time: 4 minutesUgandan delegates attending the peace meeting between themselves and their Congolese brothers in the tourist town of Ngurdoto, Tanzania, were slightly taken aback when they realised that President Joseph Kabila had carried with him a high power negotiation team to discuss oil. Eye on Business “It was like an oil meeting. We were lucky that

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlcon, a disgraced construction company which might be paid a controversial US$ 15 million settlement out of workers pockets, has two Kampala law firms at each others throats, Daily Monitor has established. workers-house.jpg This week a judge will determine which of the two firms, Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) and Tumusiime, Kabega & Co Advocates can

Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the start of a campaign by imperial Britain to beat into shape Omukama Cwa 11 Kabalega, a monarch who resisted the expansion of the Empire beyond Buganda, the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom was a thriving population with an economy based on cattle and trade. The campaign begun in 1893, with an invasion of the Kingdom by

Reading Time: 12 minutesBriefings Black gold or commercially viable oil deposits have been discovered in Uganda generating quite a buzz what the future will look like when oil dollars start flowing into resource starved government programs. So far little public discussion has gone on about that future. News on the oil has been limited to periodic statements from

Reading Time: 1 minuteYesterday was another busy day at the Daily Monitor in Kampala where i work as a journalist. It was also one of the last days of David Herbert, a Stanford intern at the paper, a day he spent writing about how a few Ugandans had ” struck gold” in Iraq working as security guards at